lol
― bruno mar(ker)s (gr8080), Sunday, 12 September 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
How crazy can you go in only three paragraphs? This crazy!!!
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/246272/imagining-islam-andrew-c-mccarthy
f only the fantasy were true: If only there actually were a dominant, pro-American, echt moderate Islam, an ideology so dedicated to human rights, so sternly set against savagery, that acts of terrorism were, by definition, “un-Islamic activity.” Imagine an Islam that, far from a liability, proved an asset (indeed, an indispensable asset) in combating the threat against us. Imagine that we could accurately call the threat mere “extremism” — no “Islamic” (or even “Islamist”) modifier being necessary because the “extremists” truly were a tiny, aberrant band, fraudulently “hijacking” a great religion.If the fantasy were true, who among us would not be proud to mark the annual observance of September 11 by breaking ground on a $100 million Islamic center cum mosque at the site of the most horrific attack in American history? In the nine years since the atrocities that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pa., such an Islam — if it really existed — would have spearheaded the defeat of America’s enemies.Such an Islam, over nine long years, would have risen up and made itself heard. It would have identified by name and condemned with moral outrage the imposters purporting to act in its name. It would have honored America’s sacrifice of blood and treasure in the liberation of oppressed Muslim peoples. It would have said “thank you” to our troops. It would have joined America, without ambiguity or hesitation, in crushing terror networks and dismantling the regimes that abet them. It would not have needed trillion-dollar American investments to forge democracies; it would naturally have adopted democracy on its own.
If the fantasy were true, who among us would not be proud to mark the annual observance of September 11 by breaking ground on a $100 million Islamic center cum mosque at the site of the most horrific attack in American history? In the nine years since the atrocities that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pa., such an Islam — if it really existed — would have spearheaded the defeat of America’s enemies.
Such an Islam, over nine long years, would have risen up and made itself heard. It would have identified by name and condemned with moral outrage the imposters purporting to act in its name. It would have honored America’s sacrifice of blood and treasure in the liberation of oppressed Muslim peoples. It would have said “thank you” to our troops. It would have joined America, without ambiguity or hesitation, in crushing terror networks and dismantling the regimes that abet them. It would not have needed trillion-dollar American investments to forge democracies; it would naturally have adopted democracy on its own.
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Sunday, 12 September 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hooooly shit
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i'll be damned, still not jaded enough, andy mccarthy can still say shit that makes me want to punch him in the neck
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
But all that said, our political and military leaders — whether a general, a secretary of defense, or a president — are making a grave mistake by commenting directly on this pathetic figure.
this is tru tho
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 September 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
what i didn't know when this got brewing a week or so ago -- and of course was not reported in anything i've read about it, but blogged by tom ricks (iirc) -- is that this thing has been getting HUGE play in middle east media. it's a big deal already. p sure that's the audience that petraeus, gates etc are thinking of. since domestic media sure as shit isn't.
why isn't victor davis hanson remarking on that? because he's a fucking numbskull
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
while i can understand petraeus/gates/etc wanting to stop it, they should have known they would only fan the flames.
i understand westboro has picked up the flag? what next
also yeah our media sux
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 September 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that mccarthy quote isnt crazy imo, he's just dumb
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 September 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
It would have said “thank you” to our troops.
it would naturally have adopted democracy on its own.
these statements are all-out crazy
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
He must have done an incredible amount of research to understand what Muslims stand for.
― bnw, Monday, 13 September 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
and that father must realize his daughter will probably get those assigned readings...in a good liberal arts college.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5:01 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
late 2 this but i read hayek & 'god & man at yale' & 'atlas shrugged' @ my liberal arts coll
― *sets trend* (deej), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
and
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 September 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
no im a fascist & i voted for palin
― *sets trend* (deej), Monday, 13 September 2010 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ok
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 September 2010 06:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/246380/laboring-vineyards-john-derbyshire
christ, what an asshole
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Monday, 13 September 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
victor davis hanson ...he's a fucking numbskull
otm
Funny thing is he has these academic credentials that make him look halfway respectable, but his writing shows he either has shit for brains, or (more likely) he has no interest in speaking truth or writing sense, but will do or say anything to serve his bosses.
― Aimless, Monday, 13 September 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
John Derbyshire must have struck out HARD with the liberal girls in college to be that pissy about people with graduate degrees in art/sci stuff.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 13 September 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
He must have struck out HARD with women in general, if his writing is anything to go by.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
None of us can deny that John Derbyshire, a "writer — novelist, pop-math author, reviewer, and opinion journalist" has made "non-negative contribution to the life of the nation", unlike the professors in the wedding announcement.
― Euler, Monday, 13 September 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i always like a little inverted-marxism slash denuded-fascism talk. "parasites", you say?
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
denuded isn't really the right word there.
― grodyody (goole), Monday, 13 September 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ill takedown of dinesh d'souza at the economist (via tnc)
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/09/obama_derangement_syndrome
― max, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"Message to American billionaires and the people who write for them: many events and movements in world history did not revolve around marginal tax rates on rich people in the United States."
― max, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
he took that d'souza thing down like hardcore daaaamn
― "ill samosa, hoos" "gibreel, big wrink" (gr8080), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Suddenly...Jay Nordlinger!
I don’t know about you, but I’m addicted to Chris Christie videos like some people are addicted to porn. I could watch them all day. I particularly like it when he confronts schoolteachers: because no one ever confronts schoolteachers (except maybe unruly, pugnacious, or precocious kids). Schoolteachers are always sacrosanct, politically — but not with Christie.
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus
― max, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I’m addicted to Chris Christie videos like some people are addicted to porn
i mean
just
― max, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
nordlinger is sweating profusely just thinking about confronting politically sacrosanct schoolteachers
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
have you SEEN Nordlinger? He looks like a guy who sweats profusely.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0aBkt8CPA
fyi, this is what Nordlinger is whacking it to
― SO YOU HAVE A BLOG, I HAVE A FIST (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
That was kind of hot.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I just experienced a terrible moment: my pants got wet in front of my students.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Are there a whole bunch of videos of Christie confronting schoolteachers or is Nordlinger just watching the same event as filmed by different news outlets? Multiple angles.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
@ 0:35
"if you want it, i'm prepared to give it to you."
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"teachers do it because they love it."
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VSjdKAQpeMw/THr53yhzqrI/AAAAAAAAH98/STrtI3bjHTo/s400/Obama_Bow_Chris_Christie_2010_07_29.jpg
Always bowing.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
that's not a bow, he's being sucked in by gravitational forces
― SO YOU HAVE A BLOG, I HAVE A FIST (HI DERE), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Christie has joeks.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Nordlinger is also the guy who wrote "the Obama kids are 100 percent scrumptious," btw
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't want to know what the underside of this guy's computer desk looks like.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
And I didn't want to consider that image. We don't always get what we want. Blech.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish Obama had said, "Well, Joe, you don't HAVE to be a plumber."
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Rather painful, but watch Jonah praise Newt's "brilliance"
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/30925?in=21:15&out=27:41
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
“Obama Makes Rare Church Appearance”September 19, 2010 3:06 P.M.By Rich Lowry
Poor President Obama. His approval ratings have been sinking, Democrats abandoning him–and now he has to spend part of a gorgeous Sunday morning going to church. The indignity! (Apparently it’s his sixth visit as president.) He was still able to make time for an afternoon golf game, though.
it's like the 1920s w/these righteous boobs. Sinclair Lewis & HL Mencken roll in graves.
― mars bonfire (m coleman), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
which is more galling, rich? that obama prays like a "true" christian or that he plays that most republican of sports - golf.
― mars bonfire (m coleman), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Where's he getting the idea that Obama thinks it's an "indignity"?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread, probably.
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Monday, 20 September 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
In a November 14 2008 article, Time magazine senior editor Amy Sullivan noted that "Ronald Reagan didn't go to church at all"
for "security reasons" natch. hey, if obama starts attending on the regular NRO can scold him for 'egotistically' disrupting services & endangering his fellow supplicants.
― mars bonfire (m coleman), Monday, 20 September 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
It really, really doesn't get better than this. How many platitudes and slogans can you cram into an essay? How much slavishness?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
And how much crazy? Because the wackadoo comes across in this essay even more clearly than in most of her writings.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link